Strange News: One Card To Rule Them All, Pop Culture and Space, Horrors of Kenyan Death Cults, and More

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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History's largest credit card merger looms on the horizon. Commentary on not-quite-space and a celebrity named Katy Perry. Ben takes the crew around the globe to learn more about wildlife piracy, the horrors of Kenyan cults, and the fascinating web of fentanyl, casinos, China and Mexican drug cartels. All this this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.5	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.0	A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:26.1	My name is Matt.
0:26.8	My name is Noel.
0:28.0	They call me Ben.
0:29.3	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.
0:33.7	Most importantly, you are you.
0:35.8	You are here.
0:36.5	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know if you are tuning in to our strange news program.
0:43.6	The evening it publishes, let us be the first to welcome you to Monday, April 28, 2025.
0:51.4	Welcome to April.
0:54.2	It's so spooky.
0:56.0	Wait, this isn't a spooky time of year yet.
0:57.9	Is that an RFK impression?
0:58.7	That's pretty good.
0:59.4	No, no, it's just spooky.
1:00.9	RFC would be like,
1:02.5	Welcome to April.
1:03.9	He has a waiver.
1:04.9	He's got a bit of a cryptkeeper.
1:07.3	He's got a bit of a cryptkeeper.
	...

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